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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday September 16th, 2026 from 1030-1130

Today,I teamed up with Johnny after his prolonged overseas cruises trip to South America than crossing the south Pacific Ocean back to AUstralia via Auckland. God moved Johnny to have a long apologetic conversation with two Chinese Ladies doing street booth display for JW. It seemed that the Spirit did move and enlightened the two JW Chinese ladies to find biblical basis for the Triune God,

I basically also had a good day with majority approaches successful, either sharing the gospel to non-believers and reinforcing the 100% assurance of salvation for Christians. People contact including a South Sudan Christians boy, a Aussie + Chinese couples non-believers but appeared open minded and even accepting my invitation to the Vineyard concert. Then have chatted with several Chinese from both Mainland and HKG, also a couple non-believers from India. They all were open to listen to the gospel and accepted mu invitation to the Vineyard concert.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

A mixture of warm and cold spring weather this week.  Roger and Graeme were in Riccarton on Tuesday.  Andy & I were in Riccarton on Thursday.  Roger, Andy, John Boyce, and I were in the city on Friday.  And Julia and I were going to head to the city on Sunday (today) after our church gathering, but with heavy rain, we did some Duo chats online instead.

 

So, in Riccarton on Thursday, Andy camped out at one corner, while I did the same at the corner a block down.  We were both busy with chats.

 

2 chats stand out in my mind.

 

First, 3 guys from the local boys' high school went past.  I offered tracts, and one of them seemed to recognise me.  He stopped the group and encouraged his friends to talk to me.  It turns out I’d talked to him another time (but I don’t remember it) - and later in the chat it became clear that he had remembered the gospel message I had obviously shared with him.

 

But based on his encouragement, I was able to have a great chat with all 3 of them.  They were all in different places regarding their thinking, but because they were open to the conversation, I seemed to juggle it well.  In the end, one of those guys took a gospel of John.  I don’t hand those out willy-nilly- only when I have a level of confidence that they will actually read it.  The fallback is to encourage them to get a Bible on their phone.  And to my amazement, the other 2 pulled out their phones and showed me their Bible apps!

 

It’s so encouraging to be able to minister freely without having to worry about follow-up.  Not that follow-up is not important.  But God has to change a heart before they will really want ‘follow up’.  And the gospel is the power of God for salvation.

 

The other chat that stands out in my thinking was with another high school-aged guy.  I think he may have been Filipino.

 

When he saw me, he didn’t shy away.  It was like he was very keen to chat.  He had a Christian background, so he knew the lingo.  And yet, he was articulating a very works-based understanding of salvation.

 

At one point, he said, “I must trust that Jesus died for my sins”.  But I knew something wasn’t right, and so I asked, “How do you trust that?” and he responded, “Well, at the very least you should keep the commandments!”

 

And so, going from there, I slowed down to show him some of the commandments and see how he was going with keeping them.

 

Also, early in the conversation, he would make claims, but it seemed like he was just making his theology up on the spot.  It was just whatever seemed right at the moment.

 

So, I had the joy of ministering to him by slowing him down and backing the conversation up so we could work through the logic of the gospel.

 

A key series of questions for him was: “So, before this chat, what did you think you had to do to get to heaven?”, and then, “So, where would you have ended up?”, and then “But now that we have had this chat, how do you understand you will be able to get to heaven?”

 

On Friday we had some annoying rain.  But it didn’t stop us from having chats.  John Boyce is a natural at starting and keeping conversations to share the gospel.  It’s a joy to watch him go.  Andy and Roger seemed busy too.

 

The standout chat for me was a very short one.  It was with an older couple.  Neither of them believed in God, and yet the gentleman wanted to clarify: I’m not an atheist; I’m a Presbyterian.  John Knox would turn in his grave to know people would say such things!

 

But the reason the chat was so good was that they both went to ‘evil and suffering’ as their argument against God.  Glory to God, I was able to take this argument and explain why God allows it, and in fact uses it for good, and in the process explain the law and the gospel.

 

Seed planted!  May God use that conversation to place a crack in the hard soil of their hearts and let the seed germinate.  God can do it!

 

It was a joy to be able to spend an hour and a half with Julia (my daughter) in shared online outreach this afternoon.  We will continue to work together in this so she can get up to speed ready for the Schoolies outreach in November.  It’s such a joy to see her struggle and yet her desire to push through it for the glory of God.

 

As we step out in seeking God’s kingdom first, He will meet our needs.

 

Thank you for your continued prayer!

 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

It’s going to be a short Battle Log tonight!  It’s been a bit of a tough week for me.  But I feel like I’ve come out the other side now!  And I think I’m a better person for it.

 

On Friday, there were four of us out on the city streets: Andy, Brian, Roger, and me.  But I didn’t feel up to any gospel conversations.  So I just sat in the sun and enjoyed its warmth on my back and took photos of the others hard at work!

 

On Sunday, my daughter Julia joined me in the city for some flipcharting.  We had lunch together first, at Riverside Market.  So nice spending time with her.  She is going to join me for the Schoolies outreach on the Gold Coast in November, so she is going to join me on Sunday afternoons to get back up to speed.

 

We had to be patient to get a decent chat, but it finally happened.  4 young people walked up to the flip chart and wanted to give it a try.

 

Julia and I had preplanned that I would handle the first chat, so she could observe to get up to speed.  And then she would start getting involved after that.

 

It was a great chat.  2 of the young people were doing all the engagement, while the other 2 just listened.  It was so wonderful seeing them wrestle with the concepts in the law and the gospel and ask good questions.  For one girl in particular, the gospel seemed to have an impact: like it was the first time she really understood it!  What a joy.

 

Sadly, we didn’t get to have a 2nd chat.  But we have agreed to role-play at home to practice for next time.

 

We finished off the outreach by walking down the mall, boldly but politely offering tracts to strangers.  Many were accepted!

 

We went for a hot chocolate together.  Family and evangelism - what a wonderful mix!  The simple pleasures of life!

 

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Sep15th 2026 from 1030-1130

What a fruitful day pf street outreach with all three of us the regular and committed team members. We almost face not rejection, every one we approached was a God elected divine appointment that all showed openness to hear the full gospel and show receptive intention to pursue further through Power to Change. Basically we approached people of different nations ie Indian, Indonesian, Mainland Chinese, local Aussie, etc.

I also took the chance to invite them to the Vineyard Gospel concert at City Tabernacle Baptist Church and Chinese Christian Church in Brisbane St Lucia Chuinese congregation on 3/10 and 10/10 respectively.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Sep 8th 2026 from 1030-1130

Hurrah, Toowong team reunited again today. It was just right to take care of long queue at the bus stop. All of us had many divine appointment chatting to people whose heart were prepared and opened. For me, it includes a mainlander from JieJiang, a Malaysian girl from KL, an Indian guys and several short chats. God even gave me wisdom to approach a mainlander girl who had rejected Yuen, I usd the Vineyard Gospel Concert flyers to invite her to attend as an Arts appreciation program and successfully connected with her for a brief chat. God is good always.

This full team status may not hold too long as Johnny need to return to Taiwan because of family members sickness that need long term roster duty to care.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Andy, Roger and I were in the city on Friday afternoon this week.  Nice sunny day.

 

I headed down to the corner of Cashel and Colombo when a young guy went past in a way that suggested he was keen to talk.  I then recognised him as the guy who had been talking to Roger a couple of weeks earlier.

 

He stopped when I engaged him.  Very agnostic.  An intelligent and polite guy, but very keen to debate.

 

I made a few mistakes in this conversation.  I allowed myself to follow his setup hypotheticals in the hope that I could reason with him.  But he was actually completely closed to reason.  Instead, I should have stuck to the script (building/builder, law, gospel) - and disengaged if he wasn’t willing to be reasonable.  I did end up starting in this way, but after some debate, I weakened.  I think I ended up casting pearls before swine.

 

I hope to learn from this exchange for the future.

 

I did finally disengage, and he moved on.  Soon after, he came back wanting a gospel tract (to dissect, I’m sure), but I freely gave him one.

 

Having been the second time we have encountered him, I’m hoping to see him again, and maybe it will turn into more of a long-term chat.  If so, I’ll stick to the high ground and disengage if the tricks come.  May God humble his heart.

 

Soon after, I fell into a chat with a guy from Germany - an IT consultant.  I used to work in IT, and so we had some common ground for me to build some rapport with.  He also had a bit of a religious background, Catholic.  I was able to share the gospel with him.  There was part of him that seemed to understand what I was saying, and yet, there was a part of him that seemed blind to what I was talking about.  It wasn’t hitting home at all.  So, I decided not to push through all the checks, but to wind the conversation up.  He had received a tract at the start, and so he left with that for future consideration.

 

When I turned around after finishing that chat, there were 2 Police officers standing fairly close to me, watching.  Lately there has been a heavy Police presence in central Christchurch.  There are a lot of ‘streeties’ around, and I guess there has been trouble.

 

The Police in Christchurch are friendly, and I’m always polite and respectful with them.

 

I continued trying to hand out tracts and engage people.  But I have to admit that I felt mildly disconcerted with them so close and watching.

 

Eventually they moved on.  But when they did, they walked right past me.  There was nothing unusual about that, because I stand right in the best spot to catch all the street traffic.  So, I just thanked them for their service.  I know the Police have to deal with a lot of the dark side of life, and I’m very grateful for them.  And I’m also very grateful that we have the freedom to proclaim Christ.

 

Soon after, I had a young man stop as I handed him a tract.  It was clear that he had a Christian background, as he knew much of the lingo.  But it was also clear that he hadn’t grasped the gospel.  With a few brief questions, I could see light coming into his thinking, not only about the gospel, but also that he was currently a false convert.  It was one of those short and sweet chats.  It was obvious he needed to be somewhere, but that brief exchange of words seemed very impactful.  Glory to God.

 

I did have one more short chat with two young people who were trying to look different from the rest of society.  One of them seemed very intelligent with the few words they said.  But the more the other talked, the more they contradicted themselves with regard to logic and truth.  I reasoned with him twice before it became very clear they were not interested in logic and truth.  I was tired, and so I just gave my name and extended my hand: “Thanks for sharing your thoughts”.  He seemed a bit surprised, shook my hand, and moved on.

 

Salvation is ultimately a work of God.  May he use our feeble efforts to make blind eyes see by changing hearts.  Thank you for your prayers.

 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

It’s been a wonderful week of gospel ministry.  I have 3 standout gospel interactions to share from this week.

 

As a team, we were out on the streets 3 times this week.  Graeme & Roger were in Riccarton on Tuesday afternoon.  Andy & I were in Riccarton on Thursday afternoon.  And Roger, Andy & I were in the city on Friday afternoon.  The included pictures are from those outreaches.

 

The first interaction I want to share was from the Friday afternoon outreach.  Roger and I were between chats and were touching base when a young lady from Christchurch Girls' High walked up to us.  She was interested in the tracts in my hand.  I gave her one, and we naturally fell into a gospel conversation (Roger moved on and ended up in his own chat right beside me).

 

From our conversation, I could tell she had a Christian influence in her life, but she didn’t have gospel clarity, and she had a lot of questions.  She needed some grounding, so I started at the beginning of my presentation and walked her through it.

 

It became clear that she was subtly thinking her works would save her.  And so I used the analogies for the ‘false ways’ to explain why works can’t save.  I then moved to the gospel.  I was using the speeding ticket analogy when, all of a sudden, she had a click moment.  “Oh, I get it now”, she said excitedly.  I asked her what she ‘got’.  And she said: “Jesus died for my sins”.  Bingo.

 

But I didn’t leave it there; I immediately explained how we accept the gift (trust) and then moved into the check questions.

 

The most powerful check was “Before this chat, what did you think would get you to heaven?”  The reason was that she had previously said, “But I already believe this”.  When she thought about my question, she had another ‘aha’ moment; she realised she was trusting in her works, rather than in Jesus.

 

It was at this point that she decided to move on.  It was like she had enough to chew on for now.  I challenged her to trust in Christ and to start reading her Bible for herself, starting in John, to check what I was saying.  She also had the tract I had given her at the start.

 

I didn’t have to do anything to start the chat; she walked up to me.  And she walked on when she was ready.  But I had the wonderful privilege of sowing the gospel seed into her life!  It’s the power of God for salvation.

 

The 2nd interaction was from an online chat on Saturday afternoon.  I connected with a guy, and he immediately informed me he was drunk.  He had a Christian background, but had sadly never understood what it meant to be a Christian (because later he articulated that works would save).

 

He said he had a respect for Christianity, but he would never be one.  Not being put off, I followed the ‘script’, and when I started working towards explaining the true gospel, a ray of light started to dawn in his thinking - and it seemed positive, but then he suddenly said something like, “Oh, you are not going to get me going back to church”, and he skipped me!

 

It was like he was being convinced, but he realised he would have to forsake his sin, and he didn’t want to.  And yet, I rejoiced!  Another seed had been planted.  May God bring a conviction for sin that would lead to conversion, to the glory of God alone.

 

The final interaction was not ‘work’-related.  A year or so ago, Roger had encouraged me to find a hobby to balance my work.  And so now I often go down to a local game store to play a card game that I enjoy.  Well, on Friday night, after finishing my last round, I stood up, and I heard a guy playing at the table behind me say, “I’m not religious, so I’m probably going to hell”.  It was a perfect-timing thing, and I had a choice: say something or stay silent.  I knew it would be a bit awkward, but I went for it; I simply said, “Well, there is a way to avoid hell”.  The guy was a bit surprised by my sudden comment.  I then turned back to my bag, wishing I had a gospel tract.  Suddenly, I realised I had stashed a couple of tracts in my bag for such a moment as this.  I pulled out a “How we know God is real, and why it matters”, turned and said, “If you want to learn more, have a read of this”.  Again, the guy was surprised, but he took the tract, put it down on the table next to him, and continued playing cards.  It was a very brief interaction, and any more than that would have been going too far.  But if he decides to read it, and if God wills it, then he has the opportunity to understand the gospel!  I was super encouraged by this, because I sometimes wonder if I’m using my time wisely in this way.  But it’s so wonderful to be able to rub shoulders with people who might never otherwise have an opportunity to interact with believers.  I can be salt and light in that way.  The key is taking the opportunities when they come up.  So, be encouraged to take those opportunities you get too!

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday September 2nd, 2026 from 1030-1130

Today was a rare jubilant day of Gospel outreach with near full team turn out, 3 out of 4 from the Joyce Meyer Ministry ie Jason, Sue, Errol, Team CFC ie Hung and Peace, freelancer Ann and a newcomer Kuda from zimbawee.

God moved Kuda to come to the OPN 513 advertise Wednesday outreach spot and successfully catching up with the team. She has not prior experience of gospel sharing. I anyway took the trouble to demonstrate how I do gospel sharing and then she really venture oof by faith that God will be with her.

Peace was also very courageous to approach people irrespective of their nationality. Eventually God also created a divine encounter to move me and Peace to approach the son and mom respectively. They have just arrived in Brisbane with the mother accompanying the son to do high school study. And God elected them to hear the gospel in the first instance both the mom and the son. Pray that these seed sowing work will bear fruit in his time.

All other team members had their own personal encounter moment with the presence of God when they step out to preach the gospel.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Sep 1st 2026 from 1030-1130

A solo outreach today again with all regular or ad hoc team mates not yet available. God is good, I was connected with a non-belivers from another big city of Sarawak, Eastern Malaysia that I went in mid July for a CCCOWE conference at Kuching. So it is not a big coincidencd that God move me to approach that young man. CHrisitan ration inf Saravah amongst Malaysian Chinese is high, but this guys is yet to be a belevers though he admitted he also has been led to pursue Chrisitainity. So we had a very nice and open chat praying that God will do the rest after this divine encounter

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Due to the weather and tiredness, I only made it out on the streets once this week (for the rest of the week, my focus was online).  On Friday, Roger, Andy & I were in the city in nice spring weather.  I’m going to have to start thinking about sunscreen again!

 

The first chat I want to talk about was one with a young father down by the Avon River.  He was sitting on one of the benches while his daughter was collecting sticks.  I offered him a tract.  He took it, and so I quickly followed up with, “It comes with a question, if you have a minute”.  He was keen to talk, and so I took the bench next to him.

 

He had had a Christian background, and after a few questions he didn’t default to works for salvation, but to the gospel.  His time at university had challenged his faith, and it was clear that he had never resolved the questions he had faced.

 

Most of my time in this chat was spent listening and addressing some of the apologetics he had needed when he was at university.  But I also sensed that he didn’t have an appreciation for the serious nature of sin, which is the horse that needs to go before the cart of the gospel.

 

I felt a need to cut this conversation short, not because it wouldn’t have been useful to continue the conversation, but because it was clear that his daughter needed his love and attention at this time.  I decided to disengage, but not before pointing him to the Scriptures.  He also still had the follow-up tract.  I left him in the sovereign hands of God, and I was grateful for the opportunity to minister into his life for as long as I did.

 

Due to the warmth, I decided to head for the shade of Cashel Mall.  I found myself at the corner of Cashel and Colombo when I had my next significant chat.

 

It was with a young man (late teens to early 20s) who also had a Christian background (later he mentioned that his grandparents were leaders in the church he grew up in).

 

Sadly, this kid didn’t have the gospel in short-term memory, if at all.  He felt the burden of sin, but didn’t know how to lift it.  So, the chat involved me training him to articulate the gospel well.  If it can touch his mind, then it can be the power of God to change his heart.  He seemed deeply appreciative of the chat.

 

Later, I was back at the sun-drenched Bridge of Remembrance end when I had a fascinating chat with a guy from Germany.

 

This guy claimed to be a Christian, but after a brief time it was clear he thought he would get to heaven by being good.

 

The point I want to make about this conversation is that we never really connected in the conversation.  Anything I said seemed to bounce off his hardened mind; he seemed blind to simple logic.  Eventually, he revealed his real philosophy: happiness.  Happiness was his god.  And in light of this, he considered himself to be a good person.  I spent some time trying to reason with him about how we know what is good and bad, but I didn’t seem to make any progress.

 

Eventually, his friend arrived, also German, and joined the conversation.  But I sensed I needed to let the conversation go.  In the end, I warned him that it wouldn’t be himself judging himself when he died; it would be the perfect and holy God of the universe.  We parted on good, if not slightly tense, terms.

 

I had some wonderful chats online this week too.  But the one fresh in my mind is the one I had earlier today, with a guy from the UK.  It went for 30 minutes.

 

Most of the chat was in the building/builder part of the ‘script’. This guy struggled to see the simplest concepts, and would simply repeat the opposite of the truth like a robot. But I gently laboured with him, with God's help. I think things were dawning in his thinking, so I went to the law. He thought he was a good person, so I had to labour on that for a bit. He was starting to see the point, and so I raced to the gospel! Not that I thought he was ready for it, but because I wanted to leave that seed with him. Why is he not ready? Naturally, I could see layers of resistance in his thinking that need to be broken through. God can do that in an instant - and may he do so! This was his last chat before bed. I pointed him to John in the Bible and warned him not to ignore what we were talking about (for him, he enjoyed the intellectual activity but didn't seem interested in his soul at this time, sadly).

 

It’s a pleasure and privilege to be basking in God’s grace!  I’m looking forward to some rest and then getting into another week of ministry.  Thank you so much for continuing to pray for this labour.

 

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